“I kept trying to find a way to turn myself so that I couldn't see the telephone poles or be in the… — lynda barry Copy Share Image
I tried to build a company my father would have been proud to work for, that he would have looked back on… — Howard Schultz Copy Share Image
...and once at Hana's house, when we stole some blackberry liqueur from her parents' liquor cabinet and drank until the ceiling started… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
If you saw me as a father who wants to raise his daughter in 'Aan Devadhai,' my character in 'Vada Chennai' is… — Samuthirakani Copy Share Image
Just stick with your kids. There's no set of rules on how to be a parent. No handbook. Just hang around your… — Denzel Washington Copy Share Image
I started out wanting to be a fireman and would cry if my mother tried to take off my 'Emergency 51' hat,… — Ed Henry Copy Share Image
The conservatism is extraordinary to me; just compare the way they dress to the way their parents dress. There are still no… — Tina Barney Copy Share Image
“We need to be raising our children for LIFE. Life is not a small system within 4 walls. Life is vast and… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
Once you succeed at what you're doing, your parents see that what you were doing wasn't so bad after all, though they'd… — Dolores O'Riordan Copy Share Image
When my father began to work with President John. F.Kennedy, we moved to Washington, D.C. I was fortunate in my pre-adolescent years,… — Queen Noor of Jordan Copy Share Image
So my mum bought a jacuzzi, and I was in there along with my father and my sister, when my mother decided… — Russell Howard Copy Share Image
“occasions, the way she would wipe the tears from her children’s cheeks and whisper: “No one ever said life was going to… — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
“I can talk about my father in ordinary conversation without feeling more than the slightest pang of loss. But if I permit… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Before getting to my mother's house, I would always think of her on the porch or even on the street, sweeping. She… — Reinaldo Arenas Copy Share Image
There are five kids in my family and I'm the only one who didn't get a diploma. All the kids got their… — Ronnie Van Zant Copy Share Image
“My mother said she already knew how I was. She could tell I was like that since I was a baby. She… — José N. Harris Copy Share Image
“Many novelists fumed at men they saw as jailers. A host of masculine villains paraded through their plots—neglectful fathers, cruel husbands, and… — Mike Wallace Copy Share Image
“Here are the Top Ten things that your parents say to you: -Is that all you're going to do all day, sit… — Charles Benoit Copy Share Image
“Your Kentuckian of the present day is a good illustration of the doctrine of transmitted instincts and peculiarities. His fathers were mighty… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
My father was a self-employed, commission-only salesman. He sold double-glazing and fitted kitchens, amongst other things. As he never declared himself unemployed,… — Neil Oliver Copy Share Image
I had several conversations with my parents about potentially wanting to quit, saying, like: 'I think I might want to be done.'… — Larry Nance, Jr Copy Share Image
When I seemed to be irritable or sad, my father would quote the learned Dr. Knight, and then say, 'Just go to… — Ben Stein Copy Share Image
A child free from the guilt of ownership and the burden of economic competition will grow up with the will to do… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
We Anglophones have reasons for adopting strange diets. Increasingly, we live alone. We have an unprecedented choice of foods, and we're not… — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
Coming to know the hidden and forgotten Mother and the marvelous wisdom of the sacred feminine as revealed from every side and… — Andrew Harvey Copy Share Image
“Menoceus wants his father." "Bob is crying because he wants his mother to stop calling him that crap-ass name. It's all right… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
“It's so unfair, I don't see whij I have to be stuck over here on this side of the fence where there's… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
Oh, Val," said Father. "All you have to do is live your life, and everyone around you will be happier." "No greatness,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
That was more or less coincidental in the sense that my parents wanted me to come back to New York because that's… — Gunther Schuller Copy Share Image
None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody - a… — Thurgood Marshall Copy Share Image
I think young generation is always better than last generation. No matter you like it or don't like it. My father said,… — Jack Ma Copy Share Image
Hope is the greatest madness. What can we expect of a world that we enter with the assurance of seeing our fathers… — Alfred de Vigny Copy Share Image
I work too much to be an appropriate parent. I feel like a bad mom to my dog some days because I'm… — Rachael Ray Copy Share Image
“My father has always had just one piece of advice about zombies and ammunition, one he’s drilled into my head enough times… — Mira Grant Copy Share Image
I don't know where genre really comes from. I grew up with parents who were artists, and I was always interested in… — Nils Frahm Copy Share Image
“The people copy their rules, just as children ape their parents. Violence is a symptom of a dysfunctional system, where people have… — Helon Habila Copy Share Image
I can remember when I was just, like, about four years old in Compton, and my mother would have me stack 45s,… — Dr. Dre Copy Share Image
“...between a man and a woman there was always one person who was stronger than the other one. "That doesn't mean the… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
“If only you become free, then you, my dear sister or brother, will give a truly liberated family environment to your child,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I am the result of a loving upbringing in a peaceful country, with wonderful parents and siblings, a very long-term relationship, stability,… — Michael Kirby Copy Share Image
